matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> matt, thank you. >>> president trump's first campaign rally since the pandemic is scheduled for next friday in tulsa, a day also known as juneteenth.

>> matt gutman taking us inside the zone tonight. matt, thank you. >>> the chicago police are on defense tonight after a video showed officers lounging around a congressman's office as you see here while a shopping plaza was being looted northeastern. officers say they were called in to protect the office. that's oneicroscop here's ramos. >> reporter: when congressman bobby rush, showed chicago mayor, lori lightfoot these images, she was outraged. >> we should all be disgusted. we should all feel hurt and betrayed. >> reporter: the still images from surveillance video show officers lying down and browsing their phones. more than a dozen cops relaxing inside congressman bobby rush's office during protests as a nearby shopping plaza was being looted. >> they even had the unmitigated gall to go and make coffee for themselves and to pop popcorn, >> reporter: police union leaders telling our chicago station wls that the officers were asked to protect the office by rush's staffers, and that the officers were told to make themselves at home.

and just behind us, on the other side, another protest gearing up right now, david. >> all right, matt gutman with us again tonight. matt, thank you. >>> president trump has been out of sight at the white house today, in the middle of a growing national crisis. will he offer any new message to the nation other than twitter? his messages on twitter have drawn criticism, including one threatening to unleash vicious dogs on demonstrators. here's our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: today, with the nation gripped by protests and bracing for another night of violence, president trump remained out of sight. even as crowds gathered anew outside the white house. overnight, protesters, some violent, made their anger known. hours earlier, the president had invoked images from the darkest moments of the civil rights struggle, tweeting that secret service was ready, if needed, to take on protesters with "vicious dogs and ominous weapons." he added, "tonight, i understand is maga night at the white house." seeming to encourage his own supporters to counterprotest. a coun

here's matt gutman. >> reporter: four blocks up, barely that far across, and i s. citizen journalist enters occupied territory. >> every day at like 3:00 there's a lot of different community meetings, a lot of discussion about what this thing is going to be. >> reporter: this afternoon, many feeling validated by breaking news. >> the first charge is felony murder. >> reporter: the former atlanta officer who shot and killed rayshard brooks last friday was charged with 11 counts, including murder and aggravated assault. >> they should be charged, because there's always a better way. >> that makes me feel good. and that's, that's all we want is justice. >> whosets our streets! ho what rr: the capitol hill occupied protest. steel sealed off from outsiders by barricades and patrolled by armed residents. it's a place where no cops are allowed. an area those inside say is for the people by the people. >> in the last few weeks, we've made quite a movement, haven't we? >> reporter: it's just blocks from downtown, and some of the homes of corporate titans like amazon and stc

>> matt gutman leading us off tonight from california. matt, thank you. >>> florida topping more than 150,000 cases and a quarter of all those cases are in miami-dade county. several major cities in florida now have made wearing masks mandatory. tonight, the research, and the demonstrations of what difference they can make. abc's victor oquendo is in miami beach. >> reporter: as the sunshine state surpasses 150,000 coronavirus cases and counting, local leaders are enacting new measures, desperate to slow the spread. effective today, masks are mandatory on miami beach at all times, with few exceptions. >> just wear the darn mask. >> reporter: if you don't wear one, you face a $50 fine. if this mask ordnance doesn't work, what's next? >> well, you know, there's not a lot of tools left in the kit for us. i think everybody declared a victory too early. >> reporter: florida's governor said his state was a success story just last month. >> you got a lot of people in r weeks, fl ne. ppen.o wee. >> reporter:hat now cases and e calls for a statewid

>> all right, matt gutman with us from california. thank you, matt. >>> and now to the growing battle, president trump blasting john bolton, his former national security adviser, calling him a liar now, trying to block his new book after the first details emerged from the book and the first interview with bolton with our martha raddatz. >> reporter: tonight, president trump attacking his former national security adviser as a wacko, calling his book a compilation of lies and made-up stories. but in new comments to abc news, john bolton brushing it all off. >> i think it's unbecoming of the office of president. i think it degrades the political civil discourse in our country and i'm just not going to respond to it. >> reporter: but bolton had some strong words for president trump when he sat down with me for a wide-ranging interview, after 17 months at the president's side, making some remarkable conclusions. you describe the president as erratic, foolish, behaved irrationally, bizarrely, you can't leave him alone for a minute. he saw c

abc's matt gutman now from arizona. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci, today with a stark warning about the coronavirus. >> right now, the next couple of weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surgings that we are seeing in florida, in texas, in arizona, and in other states. >> reporter: the images painfully familiar. doctors and nurses overwhelmed with covid patients. this time across the sunbelt. in 21 states, hospitalizations are surging. and in 23 states, the rate of heose testing positive community. >> we are now seeing a disturbing surge of infections that looks like it's a combination, but one of the things is, an increase in community spread. and that's something that i'm really quite concerned about. >> reporter: texas hitting a record 5,000 cases today. children's hospital in houston now taking adult patients to free up beds in other hospitals. and the governor who early on resisted issuing a stay at home order, now telling kbtx-tv, texans should stay home when possible. >> the safest place for you is at y

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here's matt gutman. >> reporter: after days of protests -- >> what do we want? >> justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> reporter: -- authorities tonight are looking into the mysterious hanging death of 24-year-old robert fuller. >> the initial reports appeared to be consistent with a suicide, but we felt it prudent to roll that back and continue to look deeper. >> reporter: first responders found him hanging by a rope around 3:30 a.m. on june 10th in the central square of palmdale, california. >> there was nothing else found at the scene other than the rope, which was used to hang the victim, and the contents of his pocket, as well as a backpack that he was wearing. >> reporter: firefighters took his body down and then called police. >> the body was laying right here. laying down across this way. >> reporter: so half on the white brick and half -- >> right. >> reporter: on the floor here. investigators initially called it an apparent suicide. fuller's family rejecting that assessment as protesters gathered at city hall and the sheriff's office demanding justice. >> my

>> matt gutman in seattle. thank you. >>> now to the firestorm tonight after what an ohio lawmaker asked. he also happens to be a doctor. what he asked about african-americans and the coronavirus. a medical expert then schooling him. and what's happened to that lawmaker tonight. here's adrienne bankert. >> reporter: growing calls tonight for an ohio state senator over what he said about african-americans and covid-19. republican steve huffman was speaking to the director of the ohio commission of minority health, who testified the black community has been disproportionally hit by the virus. the senator admitting there are clear disparities, then asking this -- >> could it just be that african-americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as well as other groups? or wear masks? or do not socially distance themselves? could that be the explanation of why the higher incidence? >> senator huffman, that is not the opinion of leading medical experts in this country. so, do all populations need to wash t

all right, matt gutman who has been covering this pandemic from the start. thank you, matt. >>> late today, we learned two more members of president trump's campaign team have now tested positive for the virus, after the rally in tulsa. a total of eight members now have coronavirus. and the president responded late today to questions about something he said in tulsa that he wanted a slowdown in testing here in the u.s. here's terry moran. >> reporter: at the white house today, they were scrambling to manage the fallout from the president's rally in tulsa. the arena there only a third full after team trump promised huge crowd us. >> is the president happy with the size of the crowd in tulsa? >> the president was very pleased with the rally. >> reporter: but the president had bragged that there certainly wouldn't be an empty seat in the house. the pictures told a different story. and even trump's former campaign manager said today this was not a good look. >> look, i think a fundamental mistake was made. overpromising and underdelivering is the biggest mistake

here's matt gutman on that. >> reporter: tonight, the u.s. government saying tens of thousands of volunteers will soon receive injections with one of three of experimental vaccines. those injections are part of third phase of vaccine trials, the stage before possible approval. and dr. anthony fauci now saying there are no guarantees, but he's cautiously optimistic about at least one of them working. >> we could have a vaccine either by the end of this calendar year or in the first few months of 2021. >> reporter: moderna beginning phase three trials in july, followed by the university of oxford and astra-zeneca's vaccine in august and johnson & johnson in september. the goal, to test their vaccine's safety and effectiveness. that, as at least 20 states plus puerto rico seeing increases in new cases and eight states reporting rising hospitalizations. in texas, hospitalizations jumped 40% since memorial day. officials there say it's too early to tell if that's because of the reopening, the protests or both. and in arizona, some experts say it m

>> all right, matt gutman in california tonight. matt, thank you. >>> and now to the newly released audio in the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. a 911 dispatcher watching it unfold in real time, so concerned about the officers' actions, she called a supervisor to respond to the scene. >> i don't know they have used force or not. they got something out of the back of the squad and all of them sat on this man, so, i don't know if they needed you or not, but they haven't said anything to me yet. >> and now dispatch data showing the first supervisor to arrive on the scene got there 37 minutes after police first took floyd into custody. >>> now to the coronavirus in the u.s., cases rising in at least 21 states and puerto rico. hospitalizations are up in 11 states tonight, including texas, arizona, florida and what they're now saying in south florida tonight. and what the fda is now saying about hydroxychloroquine. here's abc's marcus moore. >> reporter: their beaches reopened just days ago with new rules, but tonight, an alarming

in the middle of it all, abc's matt gutman and his crew were hit with tear gas.hey're all okay. >>> as mentioned, new york city is one of many major cities seeing protests in response to the death of george floyd. peaceful moments have been mixed in with chaotic clashes between crowds and police. abc news contributor and former nypd chief of detectives robert boyce discussed the handling of the demonstrators. another night of protests in america. your thoughts on what we're seeing and how these demonstrations are being handled from a law enforcement standpoint? >> well, we're seeing things that the protesters have now been hijacked into riots. each night it gets worse and worse. last night 350 people arrested, 30 police officers injured. we see tactics reminiscent of anarchist involvement in this, abetted by the fact that there's a local crime element here as well. we have not seen this type of looting in new york in quite some time. here we have it on 14th street in new york city, one of our major shopping areas. so you have to look at the way shop owners feel i

here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: the feeble man in that orange jumpsuit hoarsely confessing. deangelo jr., 74, admitting in a plea deal he's the golden state killer, one of the most sadistic and elusive serial killers in history. >> encompassing 13 known murders and almost 15 rapes. >> reporter: one after another, prosecutors from 11 counties reading the counts. with so many victims and survivors, the hearing had to be moved to a ballroom with a 2,000-seat capacity. in a powerful moment his victims, known as jane does, defiantly standing up in court to face deangelo. during his reign of terror, deangelo would taunt police and victims with phone calls long after the attacks. >> gonna kill you. gonna kill you. >> reporter: he was captured, living in plain sight, in 2018. >> we found the needle in the haystack. and it was right here in sacramento. >> reporter: investigators linking dna from a door handle and a discarded tissue to decades-old crime scene dna. just before the hearing, survivors huddling together. >> does it give you any satisfaction to see him up there admitting t

abc's matt gutman has more. >> reporter: the u.s. tens of thousands of volunteers will receive one of three experimental vaccines, part of a third phase of trials this summer, the stage before possible approval and dr. anthony fauci saying there are no guarantees but he is cautiously optimistic about at least one of them working. >> we could have a vaccine by the end of the calendar year or the first few months of 2021. >> reporter: moderna beginning phase three trials in july and university of oxford and astrazeneca in august and johnson and johnson and september. 20 states plus puerto rico seeing increasing new cases. and eight states reporting rising hospitalizations. in texas hospitalizations jumped 40% since memorial day. officials say it is too early to tell if it is because of the reopening, the protests are both.anrizona experts say that it might be time for another stay at home order. one doctor telling us they are maxing out of icu beds. the purpose of phase three trials is to determine how effective that the vaccine is and

here's matt gutman. >> today is my first day on the floor on my own. >> it's exciting, but it's a little bit scary. >> reporter: bridget harrigan has answered the call of about, hospitals overwhelmed with covid-19 cases are desperate for help from people like her. >> be putting me in the covid unit the whole time. so i'll want to be dressed up for that before i even get in the building. >> i was meant to go help on the front lines in some way. >> reporter: the traveling nurse has seen what the coronavirus has done to a dedated herself t fighting this pandemic starting in new york city. >> my hospital was full of patients, pull of people. i've been to hospitals before where the census was overflowing, but this was on a whole another level. >> reporter: and as reach reaches its highest cases, she knew she was on to a new destination. in 21 states, hospitalizations are surging. and today the country's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci warning congress it could get worse. >> next couple weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surgings that we're seeing i

abc's matt gutman has more from yuma, arizona. >> reporter: with over 120,000 american lives lost toiratory therapist christina santana is desperate not to lose more. >> i've never seen anything like this. >> reporter: 12 states hitting records no one wants. their highest levels ever of coronavirus. in all, the virus rising in 23 states and puerto rico. florida topping 100,000 cases. experts warning it could become the next epicenter. more than half the new cases there, people under 35. the point of infection for many so similar. >> the sick individuals have all stated that they've been around a pub, a bar, an event during the holiday weekend, those types of activities. when we call them, they're freely admitting that. they say, yeah, my friend was at the same pool party, my friend was at the same bar. >> reporter: florida, one of the last states to lock down and one of the first to reopen, finally urging everyone to wear masks when social distancing is impossible. >> this is a real spike. this is a real trajectory. >> reporter: the battle over masks playing out in towns across the c

oklahoma is not alone when it comes to climbing cases numbers as abc's matt gutman reports. >> reporterzona, and california, setting daily records for new coronavirus infections. california's governor now ordering everyone to wear masks in public. >> we're all talking about the second wave, we're not out of the first wave. our numbers are going up, not going down. >> reporter: new cases hitting a record high in texas. over 3,500. texas' governor insisting schools will reopen in the fall, but masks and covid tests will not be required. at the university of texas, 13 football players testing presumed positive. 20 states reporting increases in cases. hospitalizations are increasing in at least 18 states. for the first time ever, florida reporting more than 3,000 new cases and only 22% of icu beds are available in the state. new york's governor so concerned about the situation in florida, he may force anyone traveling from the sunshine state to self-quarantine, just as florida did to new yorkers at the beginning of the pandemic. >> we want to talk about a full 180. fast forward 100 days. no

matt gutman, abc news, phoenix, arizona. >> matt, thank you. >>> a british company says it's come upnes this month.wfo >> okay. >>> and apparently we're listening to more music now than before the pandemic. >> four out of five of us say music has helped us cope with this crisis. we've added more than half an hour of listening a day. two-thirds of americans say watching virtual performances while isolated has helped them feel more connected to people. it's me. i'm most americans because i've got a quarantine playlist. already i don't like silence in the house when i get ready or just out and about. so -- but, yeah, definitely a quarantine playlist. also the versus that's been happening. the battles of the bands and the deejays. definitely watching that, as well. yes, i can attest to this. >> oh, i heard nothing you said because i was watching beyonce. funny behind the scenes here. guys, insomniacs, we have a whole rundown of stories. i see commands the producers put in, and i see on this story here, cut a beyonce video. and the directions for our editors. they know me so well here. yo

matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> pretty tragic details there, matt, thank you. >>> president trumplooking to block a new book by former national security adviser john bolton. the president suggested the white house could sue or file charges to stop the book, saying it's full of highly classified information. bolton denies that claim. his attorney says they spent four months reviewing the book with the white house. the publisher says the book depicts a chaotic white house with the president making scattershot decisions and focused only on getting re-elected. abc's martha raddatz has the first interview with bolton. you can see that interview on sunday night at 9:00, 8:00 central here on abc. >>> coming up next half hour, the tell-all book by the niece of president trump. what mary trump is set to reveal about the president and what she calls the toxic family who made him. >>> first, the new worries about the rise in covid-19 cases. what our medical expert is saying this morning about the urgent need for contact tracers. >>> airlines are getting serious >>> airlines are getting serio

here's matt gutman on that tonight. >> reporter: tonight, arizona's health department urging hospitalsactivate their emergency plans. more than 5,000 new cases since june 1st. and now hospitals saying they're maxing out on icu beds. >> we need to really be socially responsible when we go outside, socially distance. you know, i think there's evidence that we're not doing that. >> reporter: 21 states and puerto rico registering a rise in covid. and 14 states, including arizona, have seen their highest seven-day average growth since the governor here lifting that stay at home order on may 15th. people gathering in large groups again at bars and restaurants. >> you know, right now we're fine. but if we continue at -- at a rate like this, we're facing a significant chance that we're going to have to shut down the state again. >> reporter: fema saying community transmission is the highest driver of growth in nearly two-thirds of the hot spots in 31 states. scott felix is a 25-year-old who says he got sick after camping during memorial day. he spiked a 104 fever and tested positive for covid.

here's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, testing nationwide failing to keep up with those surging covid cases. in florida where cases hit that record, nearly 9,000. >> i've been here since 5:00 this morning. >> reporter: gridlock at miami's hard rock stadium. hundreds idling in cars waiting for that quick swab. >> i'm worried about it, i'm worried about it. >> reporter: in arizona, with demand for tests almost tripling, miles-long lines in blistering heat. >> we are outrunning our ability to test appropriately and test to the capacity that we would all like. >> reporter: and of the state's tests, nearly 1 in 4 coming back positive, meaning the virus is running rampant. in this largely hispanic neighborhood in phoenix, home to a high number of essential workers, one of the highest infection rates, some waiting for up to 13 hours to get tested. so many of the new infections among the young. and some tests proving unreliable. 25-year-old molly dawson is now on a ventilator. the icu nurse from kentucky was convinced she was sick with the virus even though she tested negative twice. >> i'm s

. >> reporter: abc's matt gutman was caught in the crossfire. not long after a tense moment between protesters and the lapd. an officer ramming demonstrators with his car before speeding away. the use of force coming as police scattered looters in nearby santa monica. authorities surrounding the entrance of this store, standing firm but making no arrests, even as people still inside the store broke windows and ripped away a. pplths leading to tear gas and arrests. >> hands up. >> don kneeling on a man's neck, the same way the officer in minneapolis did when arresting george floyd. >> you don't have to worry about that. then to step in, in your anger, using a less effective approach is not going to be the way to go. >> reporter: but in florida demonstrators taking justice in their own hands. equal rights protesters forming a line physically blocking would-be looters from breaking into this cvs pharmacy. and police in southern california arrested dozens of looters overnight, but it's important to note the sheriff in l.a. confirms the looters were

here's matt gutman now. >> reporter: tonight, l.a. under curfew, shut down and boarded up. for days protesters marching into places like beverly hills. squaring off against police in mostly peaceful protests, from l.a.'s city hall, secured by to national guard, to the heart of santa monica. what you're seeing right now is police squeezing the protesters. they have actually surrounded us. eye ng in from all and when that didn't work, tear gas. on the fringes of the protests, we saw looting. despite a countywide curfew protesters leaving this supermarket ransacked, trying to stuff that widescreen into a sedan. another store looted. people going in. people coming out with arms full of goods, and police nowhere in sight. in long beach, they were right there as looters burst through the boarded-up windows of that retailer. in santa monica as night fell, police teams finally arriving, zip-tying dozens suspected of looting or violating curfews. >> there are opportunists who are tracking where peaceful protests are occurring, and they are then going to that city. >> reporter: but t

here's abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman. >> reporter: today, the feeble man in that origin jumpsuit confessing. >> i admit. >> reporter: he admitted he's the golden state killer. one of the most sadistic and elusive serial killers in history. >> 13 murders and 50 rapes between 1975 and 1986. >> reporter: one after another, prosecutors from 11 counties reading the counts. so many victims and sue hring ha ballroom with a 2,000-seat capacity. but in a powerful moment, his victims, known as jane does, defiantly standing up in court to face deangelo. during his reign of terror, deangelo would taunt police and his victims with phone calls long after the attacks. >> gonna kill you. gonna kill you. >> reporter: he was captured living in plain sight in 2018. >> we found the need until the h haystack. and it was right here in sacramento. >> reporter: investigators linking dna from a door handle and a discarded tissue to decades-old crime scene dna. just before the hearing, survivors huddling tonight. does it give you any satisfaction to see him there admitting to his crimes? >> huge

cases spiking as president trump prepares for his rally there today and matt gutman has more in yuma,zona. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, michael. yuma has one of the fastest growing outbreaks. in fact, the hospital behind me has run out of nurses. they've actually begun to call for volunteers from out of state just like new york did a few months ago. while t uled to visit, he is not scheduled to visit hospitals like this one. this morning as president trump prepares to hit the campaign trail in arizona, the number of cases and hospitalizations there hitting a record high. >> if you think about any single patient situation longer than five seconds, you're going to have like a mini meltdown internally. >> reporter: from tucson to yuma, the county's only hospital is now calling on every available nurse in the region and for volunteers from out of state. >> we are having a situation where we don't have enough nursing staff. >> reporter: in utah a state public health official warning that this surge in new cases is quickly getting to a point where the only viable option to

our chief national correspondent matt gutman was in santa monica california overnight where hundreds were arrested. matt, good morning. >> reporter: hey. good morning, amy. it's almost hard to describe how much destruction, how much looting there has been in santa monica. i don't know if you can see, just the frenzy of looting here. this was not the main body of protesters. this was done away from them. what was clear is that police were completely unable to control it. this started as a typical protest. there were rounds of tear gas. just now they threw some tear gas. they want everybody to get out of here. that tear gas sending hundreds of protesters scattering. hundreds facing off against police officers chanting for justice. [ chanting ] on the periphery opportunity. we've been seeing for the past couple hours this stand off and skirmish between police and protesters. what you're seeing is police squeezing the protesters. they've surrounded us. they're coming in from all an e angles trying to put this out. with demonstrators and riot police facing off in the center of town rooters

abc's matt gutman in los angeles. matt? >> reporter: hey, byron. we have been marching with protesters probably about 25 miles over the past several days. tens of thousands of them today. everybody we saw marching peacefully, and it has can you culminated here outside the mayor's house. right there is the standoff between police and protesters. it is now 6:10 p.m. -- we have seen a noticeably more relaxed attitude from law enforcement here los angeles today essentially allowing marchers to go almost wherever they please. we don't know if they're going try to shut the down. we have seen protesters playing along and doing what they need to do. everybody seems to be abiding by the rules at this point. no significant looting but all of this comes after l.a. has arrested 2,700 people over the last few days and people are very upset about that. robin? >> i'm sure they are. matt, thank you so much. what is it like to be a protester, to be on the streets? 50 years ago in a time of nationwide rioting dr. martin luther king jr. said in the final analysis, a

matt gutman has the latest. >> reporter: this morning arizona icus nearing capacity filling up with covidatients as the expected death toll is revised upwards. >> if we continue at a rate like this, we're facing a significant chance that we're going to have to shut down the state again. >> reporter: that as covid infections continue to rise in 20 states plus puerto rico. in texas, hospitalizations up about 40% since memorial day. but now an army of volunteers taking part in the third phase of vaccine trials this summer. the u.s. selecting three companies to test their vaccine effectiveness. moderna beginning phase three trials in july, followed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca's vaccine in august and johnson & johnson in september. dr. anthony fauci says he's hopeful. >> we could have a vaccine either by the end of this calendar year or in the first few months of 2021. >> reporter: in the meantime, doctors devising new innovations to try to save the desperately ill. recently a medical team at northwestern performed what is believed to be the first lung transplant of a covid pat

matt gutman joins us from phoenix, arizona, where we said one of the cases are on the rise. good morning, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, cecilia. so many parts of the sun belt currently in the midst of that surge with the peak still a few weeks away. i want to give you a sense of what that looks like. one of the major hospital systems here in arizona notched a near 20% increase in covid patients in just a 24-hour period and hospitals are running out of staff. one reason they're calling for volunteers from all over the country. this morning, a wake-up call from the nation's top infectious disease doctor about a disturbing surge in covid-19. >> the next couple of weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surgings that we're seeing in florida, in texas, in arizona and in other states. >> reporter: as cases climb in more than half the u.s., dr. anthony fauci testifying on capitol hill warning the first wave isn't over. and that community spread is on the rise. scenes like this raising concerns and prompting states like texas to crack down. fema reporti

matt gutman is tracking it all. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, george. a couple times this week california registering 3,000 new cases a day. public health officials saying with protesters being out and aboutto rise, but they're conce. with packed protests expected to continue this weekend, that dire warning about covid-19. the cdc predicting the death toll could hit 143,000 by the end of the month. the cdc director concerned about a lack of social distancing and masks. >> obviously we're very concerned that our public health message isn't resonating. we continue to try to figure out how to penetrate the message with different groups. >> reporter: the los angeles health department now asking themse 1days after a protest. we spent every day this week in crowds who say their cause goes beyond covid. >> george floyd survived covid and then he died by police brutality. >> reporter: california, 1 of at least 16 states where the number of new cases is increasing. arkansas and alabama also seeing a spike and now reports this morning that up to five crimson tide

first, matt gutman in seattle with the latest. matt, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit. good morning from the heart of this police-free zone. you can see where everybody is lining up. that was the 6th precinct. they're here trying to protect this precinct, trying to prevent police from coming back. you can see the chain link fence and barrier. they have cordoned off a six-block area here and what protesters are telling us they're not going anywhere. >> what do we want? [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: for the fourth day protesters surrounding the sixth precinct which police abandoned monday and boarded up after days of clashes with protesters. have you ever heard of police abandoning a police precinct? >> no, not on purpose. >> reporter: now graffiti and signs with slogans like seattle people department, and property of the people, it's become known as the c.h.a.z., capitol hill autonomous zone. >> this building is the people's. we pay for it with our taxes. we want to make sure it's being used for the right things. >> reporter: demonstrators setting up their own barricad

matt gutman is in phoenix, arizona, where cases are spiking. r: hey, good morning. they're spiking because there's almost a complete re-opening here. now, the two major health systems in this state are telling us that those re-openings, the protests and a wlm no social distancing it's creating a combination that the state's health system is now telling them to activate their emergency plans and it's not just here in arizona. 14 states are now seeing a surge in covid cases. this morning, with hard hit cities like new york finally starting to ease restrictions, 20 other states and puerto rico are now reporting increases of covid cases, and 14 of those states have seen their highest seven-day average of new cases just since june 1st. in arizona, covid cases spiking by 34% over the past week. both hospitalizations and the death toll are soaring. >> we have seen a rise, you know, over the last few weeks. if we started to see a large more volume of patients needing acute hospital care we quickly could be overwhelmed. >> reporter: valley wise health ne

matt gutman joins us now from palmdale, california with the very latest. matt, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, whit. the body of robert fuller was found hanging from a tree in the town square of palmdale in view of the fire department in the city square. his family insists he did not commit suicide. now the fbi is involved. [ crowd chanting ] heeding the call of the thousands marching into the small california city of palmdale -- [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: -- the fbi and department of justice say they are actively reviewing the investigations into the hanging deaths of two african-american men in the cities of palmdale and victorville, assessing whether racism played a role. it comes after the l.a. sheriff changed course in the mysterious hanging death of 24-year-old robert fuller. >> the initial reports appeared to be consistent with a suicide but we felt it prudent to roll that back and continue to look deeper. >> reporter: first responders found him hung by a rope around 4:00 a.m. on june 10th in the central square of palmdale, califor

matt gutman who was in the courtroom joins us from sacramento, california, with more. rter: michael, good morning. this is one of the last days arguably one of the most sadistic serial killers in american history will wake up in this jail. now, he pleaded guilty to that cascade of cruelty, 63 murders and rapes, but for his victims yesterday might not have provided justice but it was closure. this morning, the sadist who terrorized california for decades forced to admit crime after crime. >> how do you plead? >> guilty. >> reporter: joseph james deangelo a/k/a the golden state state killer, pleading guilty to dozens of charges. >> the scope of joseph deangelo's crime spree is simply staggering, encompassing 13 known murders and almost 50 rapes between 1975 and 1986. >> reporter: it took hours for the parade of prosecutors from 11 counties to read the counts against him. >> you attacked her. you beat her and you raped her. you murdered her in the first degree. >> reporter: and the cruelty, haunting. >> he is the real-life version of hannibal lecter. >> reporter: before th

matt gutman is in los angeles with more on the mask division across the country. >> reporter: hey, good morning, michael. somehow wearing a mask has become this political flash point even though doctors at hospitals like this remind us the purpose of these masks is designed to protect other people s from our germs, and an increasing number of governors are making wearing these mandatory as an increasing number of their constituents are rebelling against it. >> are you going to allow the government to tell you, you have to wear a mask? >> all: no! >> reporter: you could call it a mask mutiny. >> wearing a mask can cause you to get sick. >> wearing a mask can actually cause you to get sick? >> yes, absolutely. >> reporter: that claim may be false but the growing refusal to cover one's face is triggering a crackdown. on airplanes -- >> i don't like wearing a mask. >> i'm going to ask you to come off the aircraft. >> reporter: american airlines and delta confirming they've banned passengers for refusing to wear masks on board. after scenes like these when las vegas re

matt gutman has the latest. >> they came to oakland to kill clamorr e supremacist came for a very different reason. the department of justice revealing the pair identified as part of the boogaloo movement with the intent of igniting a race war. >> the boogaloo term is used by extremists to reference a violent uprising or impending civil war in the united states. >> reporter: carillo, an air force sergeant, and robert justice jr. drove this van to the federal courthouse opening fire from the side door and killing federal officer patrick underwood and wounding another officer. a week later responding to the fbi's request for help, a witness spotted the van 70 miles away near santa cruz, california. >> the witness observed what appeo aio rear bakin t van. >> reporter: police swarmed. a shootout ensued. >> a white sedan just took fire. he was hit by the vehicle. >> reporter: another officer, santa cruz sheriff sergeant damon gutzwiller was killed. two other officers wounded. carillo was on the run carjacking vehicles. >> somebody, please come help. >> reporter: that cry for help, from good sama